It turns out that the solution to problems at the beginning and end of math strings is fairly simple and involves changing only tables. There are other things to fix. I want to work with the latest versions of the Nemeth tables first and then move on to the Marburg tables. Please zip up and send to me over the list your versions of en-us-mathtext.ctb nemeth.ctb and edittable.ctb . They can all be zipped into one file. Thanks, -- John J. boyer; President, Chief Software Developer JJB Software, Inc. http://www.jjb-software.com Madison, WI USA Developing software for people with disabilities For a description of the software and to download it go to http://www.jjb-software.com